People often get tattoos to mark a defining moment in their life. A new job, getting married, and so on. However for many people life is not all happy and filled with joy there are deep moments of saddness and loss. Often people that have lost a loved one have a hard time letting go of that person and fear losing the memory of them. This has lead people for decades to get tattoos dedicated to their lost loved one.
In loving memory tattoos are a great tattoo because they are often filled with a very deep and personal meaning. They are not the type of tattoo that one gets on a whim but instead one that a person thinks about deeply before making the decision to get one. Often the symbols and particular of the tattoo design are carefully planned out before hand. The person seeking a tattoo in this style will think long and hard about the person they lost and often tries to come up with some way to represent them. Often these tattoos will feature a symbol or object that will represent the person. A person might get a dove to represent the lost loved one or some symbol that invokes a memory of them.